Top 17 Hermann Bondi Quotes
#1. They say when you consciously are in search of something then that means you are ready.
C.J. Edmunds
#2. Won without a drop of bloodshed. His mother had been right. That truly was the best victory.
Meljean Brook
#3. A theory is scientific only if it can be disproved. But the moment you try to cover absolutely everything the chances are that you cover nothing.
Hermann Bondi
#4. All science is full of statements where you put your best face on your ignorance, where you say: ... we know awfully little about this, but more or less irrespective of the stuff we don't know about, we can make certain useful deductions.
Hermann Bondi
#5. When we choose to be different, we have to expect a little attention.
Nancy Grossman
#6. [Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.
Hermann Bondi
#7. An opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.
Hermann Bondi
#8. Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.
Hermann Bondi
#9. The landscape has been so totally changed, the ways of thinking have been so deeply affected, that it is very hard to get hold of what it was like before ... It is very hard to realize how total a change in outlook Isaac Newton has produced.
Hermann Bondi
#10. It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.
Bob Keeshan
#11. On working with director Werner Herzog: I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague.
Klaus Kinski
#12. For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.
Laurent Fabius
#13. We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense ...
Hermann Bondi
#14. [Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate.
Hermann Bondi
#15. Our humanist attitude should therefore throughout be to stress what we all have in common with each other and relegate quarrelsome religion to the private domain where it can do [less] harm.
Hermann Bondi
#16. The scientist ... must always be prepared to deal with the unknown. It is an essential part of science that you should be able to describe matters in a way where you can say something without knowing everything.
Hermann Bondi
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